Compiler quietening. Bug 2983

[exim.git] / test / README

diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index c0f548292adf422a8ecaa47a4e239324e44f398d..6c9a2d8da52189ef53723f03365c48c50442a29b 100644 (file)
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -696,6 +696,17 @@ be replaced by the local host's name. Long commands can be continued over
 several lines by using \ as a continuation character. This does *not* apply to
 data lines.
 
+A line with a leading number followed by a space and then an uppercase
+word, equals character, value sets an expected return code as above
+plus an environment variable.  Example:
+
+  255 TZ=GB
+  exim_msgdate -l -u -z -localhost_number=20 000000 1PANS3 ZZZZZZ
+  ****
+
+
+
+
 Here follows a list of supported commands. They can be divided into two groups:
 
 
@@ -747,6 +758,12 @@ This command runs the exigrep utility with the given data (the search pattern)
 on the current mainlog file.
 
 
+  exiqgrep <data>
+
+This command runs the exiqgrep utility with the given options
+on the current spool directory.
+
+
   gnutls
 
 This command is present at the start of all but one of the tests that use
@@ -814,6 +831,14 @@ are still in existence at the end of the run (for messages that were not
 delivered) are not compared with saved versions.
 
 
+  no_munge
+
+If this command is encountered anywhere in the script, the output is not
+munged before it is compared with a saved version.
+This option allows meaningful tests of the exim_msgdate utility;
+without it all date comparison checks would succeed.
+
+
   no_stderr_check
 
 If this command is encountered anywhere in the script, the stderr output from
@@ -1119,13 +1144,16 @@ are of the following kinds:
 (2) A line that starts with "*sleep" specifies a number of seconds to wait
     before proceeding.
 
-(3) A line containing "*eof" specifies that the client is expected to close
+(3) A line containing "*data" and a number specifies that the client is
+    expected to send that many byte; the server discards them
+
+(4) A line containing "*eof" specifies that the client is expected to close
     the connection at this point.
 
-(4) A line containing just '.' specifies that the client is expected to send
+(5) A line containing just '.' specifies that the client is expected to send
     many lines, terminated by one that contains just a dot.
 
-(5) Otherwise, the line defines the start of an input line that the client
+(6) Otherwise, the line defines the start of an input line that the client
     is expected to send. To allow for lines that start with digits, the line
     may start with '<', which is not taken as part of the input data. If the
     lines starts with '<<' then only the characters are expected; no return-